DR. TRUBY KING’S MISSION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3336, 14 November 1919, Page 5

DR. TRUBY KING’S MISSION.

The following extract from an article which appeared in ‘a recent isemc-M of Overseas will be read with intercst:—-

The Overseas Club may congratu-, late themselves on having given birth to so lusty an infant as the Babies of the Empire Society! It promises to be one -of the most inlpol'tant confributions to that social reconstruction to which everybody is now pledged. A meeting held at the Mansion House, with the Lord Mayor in the chair, on December 17 last’, might be described,

iwith-out exaggeration, ‘as electric, The lspeech of the afternoon was certainly ithat of Dr. Truby King. As one of 7 my friends who heard him for the first time said afterwards, his speech was I that of an inspired prophet, wonderful in its entire absence of self—co'nscious-_ ‘mess, and for the breath of at higher ‘world which animated his lightest word. His demonstration of the falling birth-rate in all civilised countries 1 and his reminder of the all too high‘; percentage of deaths amongst infantsi roused the best and deepest fieelings of his audience. Such a man might welli be compared as an apostle with Peter the Hermit, whose‘ fiery orations‘ aroused Europe. (to a great crusade against the unspeakable Turk. For Dr. ‘ King has within him all thepoweri requisite for stirring the conscience‘ of the English-speaking world to the‘ iniquities it is perpetrating in its‘ hideoiis neglect of the rights of infants to health and happiness. It is much to ‘ be hoped that the babies of the Empire 1 may be allowed to retain the services‘ of Dr Truby King for an indefinite?‘ period. No problem is more pressings than that concerned with the interests of our infants, and no one man is bet»ter qualified than this famous New ‘Zezfland doctor to rouse tho‘British people to the sense of their duty.